Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by Sakos on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:19AM
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No, they don't have EUV. They have 7nm which they're doing with DUV, but they're hitting the same issues Intel did with abysmal yields and there's no guarantee that SMIC will be able to solve something Intel was never able to.
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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by sylware on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:26PM
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... unless they jump onto the EUV train. That said heard that japan may come back as a top-notch silicium country with... nanoimprint?!
Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by ohazi on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:25PM
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They're sanctioned, they can't just "jump"
Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by sylware on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:02PM
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come on... ofc they would have to do the whole R&D.
Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by kamaal on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:38AM
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They do have EUV machines, albeit unreliable. Like you yourself mentioned the yields are the problem here.
This is really more of an engineering problem, you need more cycles for quality and reliability. But it's not something unsurmountable. Intel had no reason to try hard enough, Intel is never going to get sanctioned.
'Necessity is the mother of all innovation' might come to play here. If it comes down to living vs dying, people go to no ends to make things happen.